Best journal/gallery/media indexing web applications?

[Tek7]

I'm planning on building a new personal web site soon and I'm looking for free web applications to:

1. Keep an online journal (with some posts marked as public and some posts marked as private and requiring an account with permission to view)
2. Post photos and images (with fast and easy upload capabilities as well as automated thumbnails)
3. Index media (books, audio CDs, games, etc.)

I'd also like to build and maintain a "Profile" page where I can list a few things about myself, as well as my resumes on separate pages.

I'm thinking of using WordPress for the online journal and Gallery for the gallery.

A friend showed me a media indexing application over a year ago; I plan to e-mail him and ask for the name of the program.

I'd like to keep the backend as user-friendly and quickly navigable as possible, which rules out Joomla. (IMHO, Joomla's backend is clunky and awkward.)

Any thoughts?

 

[vibrokatana]

The latest version of wordpress is pretty nice. I think it supports one click upgrades too, but I have only updated a single module doing that. So long as you install wp-cache and akismet then you shouldn't have any problems with speed or spam.

I really like drupal's backend, but it is a bit to complicated for most people and drupal itself is REALLY HARD to theme properly. I have tried writing my own templates for it but it is a royal pain. Of course that was with the 5.x branch but 6.x is out now.

joomla is really showing its age. It hasn't had many feature additions in a long time and is a royal pain to modify extensively. Not to mention the control panel that leaves most people pulling their hair out.

 

[Hescominsoon]

I don't use askimet..it allows too many false positives. My blog has been spam free since using spam kharma. Wordpress for your personal site is perfect and then you can use gallery or coppermine for the images. You could also go with joomla as it already has a blogging module built in and also has several gallery addons as well.

 

[tjguitarz]

I'll pipe in and say the Mac has excellent blogging/journaling/picture posting capabilities on your own personal website. BUT it's not free, and you'd need a new computer. I guess I only posted because I like to hear myself talk.

 

[Tek7]

I'll pipe in and say the Mac has excellent blogging/journaling/picture posting capabilities on your own personal website. BUT it's not free, and you'd need a new computer. I guess I only posted because I like to hear myself talk.

Apparently.

If I could afford a Mac, I might as well just hire my own programmers to code an integrated suite of web applications to do my bidding.

 

[vibrokatana]

I don't use askimet..it allows too many false positives. My blog has been spam free since using spam kharma. Wordpress for your personal site is perfect and then you can use gallery or coppermine for the images. You could also go with joomla as it already has a blogging module built in and also has several gallery addons as well.

Most of the junk caught by akismet is one liners with a link back to a splog. I am sure "babycareindia" really enjoys posting "Nice Site!" when my content is barely anything and is totally unrelated. Only 1 or 2 it has blocked has looked even somewhat legit.

Joomla's blog module is horrible, just like the rest of the CMS. There are much better alternatives that work without risking hair loss.

 

[vibrokatana]

I'll pipe in and say the Mac has excellent blogging/journaling/picture posting capabilities on your own personal website. BUT it's not free, and you'd need a new computer. I guess I only posted because I like to hear myself talk.

Apple is revamping .Mac soon. You now get something like 20GB of storage for something like 100 dollars a year (~8.10 a month). And it works with anything (that supports webdav). However, I don't think it supports PHP so you would have fun using it.

 

[Hescominsoon]

Most of the junk caught by akismet is one liners with a link back to a splog. I am sure "babycareindia" really enjoys posting "Nice Site!" when my content is barely anything and is totally unrelated. Only 1 or 2 it has blocked has looked even somewhat legit.

Joomla's blog module is horrible, just like the rest of the CMS. There are much better alternatives that work without risking hair loss.

yes it catches the splog and many legit things as well. spam kharma i ahve never had it not nail something it shouldn't and have had zero false positives as well. Joomla is what powers my new site and it works great. There's tons of blogging addins as well as a wordpress bridge so you can stil keep one loging for everything.

 

[Kidan]

Personally, I use Blogger to push out content to my personal sites. It's easy to use, my wife is happy with it, and it standardizes login to her gmail account.


Beyond that, what you're asking for is also dependent on the type of hosting account you have.

Since I use a windows based host, not all those things that the good folks above would work for me. BlogEngine.NETworks for a Windows host.